Body position II

[chickenfunkstar]

I thought of that, but zoom in on pic one and check the eyes, you can see the brows arched (as far as I can make it) which means he is looking up in relation to the chin position. Its the underside of the chin thats important, it needs to be horizontal with the ground (even with the camera angle), as it orients the balance. When the chin pushes down like that it causes the upper chest to arch forward and outer shoulders to gather in putting weight down on the front (by bringing the c.g. forwards) and if too pronounced affecting forearm/elbow angle which is where you get leverage from (it looks like there is a bit of right arm/shoulder push their from the corner as well).

But since I cant see the rest of the corner and dont know it anyhow I'd have to agree with you. As I said its much better to use a chair, or stationary bike and demo the body positions, rather than trying to tell from a pic.

The intent behind my posts was more to give something to think about and then perhaps experiement with, rather than to say whats right/wrong, because body position is also a personal style/comfort characteristic as well as a setup/technique one

I ride a krappisaki - like I have body position - biggles had better tehnique than I do

Cheers, I've got the feeling that you're right. Thinking back I can remember a couple of times where I wasn't looking particularly far up the track. Wasn't something which I was conscious of at the time though.
Thanks.

[chickenfunkstar]

Easy - You would look significantly better if.................you were riding a Triumph.

But If I was riding a jap bike - I'd look a lot like this:

Pffft, my picture and troy's picture are virtually identical.

p/t

[FROSTY:Me]

heres a pic of the corner in question -sort of gives ya a better view of the whole thing

[TwoSeven]

ahh, its totally flat, those are interesting ones (i'd be so tempted to put in an off camber half way out). Is that a tuition ride there - wondering why elizabeth royal is doing a fabian foret


I think next time I am up that way, I might take a walk round that track - hard to visualise moves for something you havn't seen.

[Toast]

Theres more important things to worry about.

If I was trying to teach someone to ride and they asked me about hanging off...this would definitely be my answer...

I don't think I bothered about hanging off for the first two years of riding.

Most important bits of man-on-bike manipulation advice I've ever had are to keep your hands and arms relaxed on the bars and weight the outside peg (essential to me when sliding of either tyre is involved)

[shadow]

good pic. just watch those feet. great having pics of yourself you can see alot for yourself how you are going. you look confident enough to me to maybe just try moving around abit but i agree its not the most important thing til you have some of the other above things mentioned sorted. good one go hard

[Korumba]

Looks cool from here!!!Just can’t quite understand why that form wasn’t event last month on our Wet Northland Roads

(Read Goat Track)

Nice..

[Mental Trousers]

As people have said, probably the only thing you really want to watch is your feet.

Different people have different styles. Me, I have a kinda wierd style where I twist at the waist so my knee goes forward along the bike rather than out, my ass is half off the seat and my upper body is facing into the corner (my lower body is actually pointing to the outside of the corner). It works for me as I get my weight on the inside of the bike but my legs etc are still very much in contact with the bike so I can still feel everything that it's doing.